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MOLD FOR MAKING GOFPIN GASES.

PatentedApr. 27, 1886.

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\VILLIAM R. HASSARD, OF U NION, NEXV JERSEY.

MOLD FOR MAKING CUFFlN-CASES.

QPE'CIFEICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 340,877, dated April27, 1886.

Application filed December 10, 1885. Serial No. 153,214.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it' known that LVVILLIAM 1t. Hrlsslinn, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at the town of Union, in the county of Hudson and Stateof New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inMolds for Making Coffin-Gases, of which the following is aspeeification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to molds for the construction of burialcases; andthe object I have in View is to make a matrix and core which may bereadily taken apart and removed from the molded material while it is ina plastic form, thecore being more particularly peculiar in itsconstruction.

In the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, Figure1 represents a longitudinal section of the mold and core in position foruse. Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view of the core, and Fig. 3 a plan view ofthe mold.

In the fi gnres, A A represent the side pieces of the mold, B B the endpieces, and G the bot-- tom. The bottom piece is channeled outlongitudinally near its edges as well as crosswise. The lower edges ofthe side pieces rest in the longitudinal channels, and the lower edgesof the end pieces restin the cross grooves or channels. The side piecesare slotted at their ends and the end pieces are grooved on their outerfaces. Rods H, having thumbserews on their ends, lie in the slots of theside pieces and in the grooves of the end pieces, and serve to secureand bind them together when necessary.

F F and G G are slides, which taper inwardly longitudinally, to conformthe shape of the mold to the usual shape of the casket which the case isto contain. The end slides, E E, taper from top to bottom inwardly for asimilar purpose. The side ends of the slides E rest in channels in theinner faces of the slides F and G.

D represents an elevated portion of the bot tom piece, 0.

The parts of this mold are so constructed that they may be easily takenapart and remot ed after the case has been molded.

The core is represented in Figs. 1 and 2, and is so constructed of metalplates and rods and hooks and eyes that it eappcasily be knocked downand removed when i'iecessary. I and I (No model.)

represent the side pieces of this core, and R thebottom piece. J Jrepresent the end'pieces. Upon the inner surfaces of the several platesare eyes a a, For the purpose hereinafter indicated. l? P representrods, which extend ontward or toward the mouth of the core from itsbottom. These rods are provided with screwthreads.

m m are disks, which pass over the rods, and which have hinged to them aseries of hooks, N N. \Vhen the core is set up for use, the hooks N Ncatch into the eyes a a of the side and end pieces.

0 0 represent thumb screws, which pass over the rods 1 P, and which aremade to work against the disks or m, for raising or low ering them, totighten up or free the side pieces.

K represents a rod connecting two of the disks.

M represents a brace, the ends of which rest in grooves in the cornerslides, 00 so. These slides have a tongue, which rests between the innerends of the two side pieces, I and I, connecting the two at the extremewidth of the core.

The end plates, J J, rest in channels in the outer ends of the plates Iand I, and the bottom plate is clamped between the side and end plates.

It will readily be seen that by'loosening up the thumb'screws O O thehooks may be removed from the eyes in the plates, and thus the entirecore taken down and removed.

In using this mold the core is placed in it after all the parts of eachhave been properly secured together. The core is placed bottom upward,as seen in Fig. 1, its mouth surrounding the elevated portion D of thebottom. The plastic material of which the caseis to be made is insertedin the matrix around the core and tamped down until the sides and endsare formed. The material is then spread over the core to a suitablethickness to form the bottom of the ease. lVhen all has been completed,the mold is turned over and knocked down and its parts removed. Thisenables the operator to reach the thumb-screws on the inside of thecore, which being loosened, the several parts of the core are removedand the case left to harden.

The slat or cover to the case is molded in any of the well-known andusual ways, and is tit ICO ted to and secured upon the case at theproper time.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

. 1. A mold for making cases for the receptacle of burialcaskets,constructed with side pieces, A A, end gates, 13 B, with bolts H passingthrough the said side and end pieces, for binding same together, thebottom 0, having elevated portion D, and the tapering slides E i F G,all substantially as and for the purpose able mold, a core-box havingremovable bottom ,side,and end pieces, removable transverse brace M,fitting in grooves in corner pieces, :0, screw-threaded rods P,projecting from the bottom of the core-box, on the inside thereof, andprovided with thumb-screws O, and plates m, placed on the rods P, andprovided with hooks N, to detachably engage with the side and end piecesof the box, and the transverse brace M, substantially as herein shownand described.

4. In combination with a detachable knockdown mold having a raisedportion, D, on its bottom of the general shape of the article to bemolded, a core-box constructed of detachable bottom, side, and endpieces, and adapted to fit over the raised portion of the bottom of themold, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

VM. R. HASSARD.

